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...wins, “that’s an awesome responsibility,” Dahroug said. “This is the only thing that’s been on my mind for the longest time...
Brown was stellar in seven innings of relief—his longest outing of the season—allowing no runs on only two hits while striking out six Crusaders...
...wise enough to avoid making race the central theme of his work. Instead he just puts Asian Americans into funny, compelling stories that would typically feature "white" characters. The titular tale, for example, owes far more to Dan Clowes' "Ghostworld" than to Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club." The longest and best of the book's pieces, "Same Difference" features Simon and Nancy, two dorky twenty-something best friends living in Oakland, California who bicker over pop-culture and local weirdoes. The story follows the two of them as Simon semi-reluctantly drives Nancy to Pacifica in order...
...ordinary Indians, determined to achieve immortality, grew record-busting mustaches, walked vast distances with milk bottles on their heads, ate light bulbs and wrote poems on rice grains. Among those persistent enough to make it into the book was Shridhar Chillal, who still holds the record for the longest fingernails, at a combined 6.15 meters. He told me he wanted to saw the nails off but would do so only if someone paid him $200,000. ("I haven't had a good night's sleep," he lamented, "since 1965.") When asked why they went to such extremes, their explanations were...
...hoax until the end. "What's extraordinary is to see people who are convinced that they're going to be the next pop star go up there and just stink up the joint," says Fleiss. "It's incredible. I'm grateful for it." The winner--or at least the longest-serving loser--is rewarded with a $100,000 recording contract. Isn't the public humiliation of it all a little too mean? Says Fleiss: "Too mean? Nah, that never crossed my mind. Too funny, too compelling, I did think at times." And you thought Simon Cowell was cold...